Morning journal and courier., 1887-03-05
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. THE CURTAIN FALLS On The Closing Act Of Congress. SCENES OF THE FINAL HOUR The Rivers And Harbors
 Get Left. 1 TR0TTER IS MADE RECORDER | A New Railway Route To
 The West.
TRoTTER IS MADE RECORDER
rHE1Asru HOURS OF ooNeREss.

!
 Two Important Bills Fail of Thei1
 Passage The River and Harbol Bill Pocket-Vetoed-A Number o
 Bills Signed by the President.
 WASHINGTON, March 4.-Afuer a continu
 ous all night session both houses of Congress
 adjourned at noon to-day. At o'clock thii
 morning there were six appropriation billl
 still unacted upon-the naval, the legisla
 tive, the deficiency, the District of Columbia
 postofice and Notifications. Rapid work wal
 made on the bills so that by 9 o'clock only
 two, the deficiency and the Notifications
 were unacted upon. The latter was finally
 abandoned in conference, the chief point oi
 difference being that the House insisted upor
 Iron guns and the Senate upon steel guni
 and neither being willing to surrender; the
 deficiency bill, though agreed upon in con
 ference, failed because of want of time tc
 engross it. The District of Columbia bil 1 was signed in time. At seventeen minutes
 before 12, when the deficiency conferees an
 nounced an agreement, Doorkeeper Bassett
 mounted 8 chair and turned the clock back ! ten minutes. At 1915 the committee ap- pointed to wait upon the President returned
 to the Senate at 12:05 p. m., correct time,
 and announced that the President had no further communication to make. The presi- dent of the Senate then dropped his gavel 1 and announced that "the constitutional per- ! iod for the termination of the Forty-ninth ! Congress having arrived, the Congress stands l adjourned without day." The clock still l showed ten minutes to spare, but the gavel | fell at 12:07 The keepers of the Senate hat hofo, F., <>f Congress has deficiency bill failed. The ! river and harbor bill failed to receive the Presidents signature. It reached him sev- | eral days ago, but was "pocket-vetoed." The closing hours of the House were char acterized by drowsy good nature, the small est jokes eliciting laughter. MT. Ward, of Indiana, who, since four o'clock, had been | Intellectually trying to get a vote on the 1 Presidents veto of the Lafayette public l building bill, sat in chair one side of the aisle usually occupied by the tellers, and MT. Negley of Pennsylvania in another chair on the other side. Every now and then as a member passed between them someone would remark; ''Ont more in the affirms- tive," and would unfailingly be rewarded with laughter. When MT. Reed moved thanks to the Speaker and called for rising vote, and when, notwithstanding that Reagan of Texas, Compton of Mis- souri, and others conspicuously kept their seats, Mr. Hatch Gin the chair) declared that three hundred and twenty-five members Ca full house, including the dead men) had vot- cd for it, the hilarity was loud and long. General McCook, secretary of the Senate, oscillated backwards and forwards announc- ing to the House the Ssnate's concurrence in private bills long after the time had passed when by any possibility they could reach the President fer consideration. At 11:45 Burnes of Missouri announced the death of the general deficiency and the urgent def cieney bills, saying that the conferees had agreed upon reports on both measures, but there would not be time to present them. Five minutes later, while Butterworth of Ohio and Reed of Maine were engaged in lively tilt over he grave of the Notifications bill, the secre- tary of the Senate appeared with the an- nouncement that the Senate had appointed a committee to wait on the President and in form him that Congress had "completed it's business" The clock of the Senate was turned back twice after 11:45, and it was nearly ten minutes after twelve when Private Secretary Prudden appeared with the an- nouncement of the Presidents approval of the last batch of bills. The rapid partial reading of the titles of these bills alone occu- pied over ten minutes and necessitated anoth- CT reverse movement of the clock. It was inter rupted by MT. Morrison's announcement that the committee appointed to wait on the President had performed their duty and the President had no further communications to make. The Speaker finally obtained unani- nal of the remainder of the list. Iu few graceful phrases he returned thanks to the House and at 1915, actual time, the House was adjourned sine die.
 It is said at the White House that there is no probability of special session of the Senate being called by the President for the purpose of acting on nominations or for any other purpose. The interstate commission and successor to Secretary Manning will probably be appointed next week or the week following.
 Among the last acts of Congress which have become laws are the anti Mormon bill, the redemption of the trade dollar bill, the fisheries and retaliation against Canada bill. relating to arrears of taxes in the District, appropriating $350, ,00O for the purchase of site for the postofiee building at San Fran cisco; repeating the tenure of offic act;author- izing the Secretary of War to accept from the Commercial club lands known as the high tract near Chicago tor military purposes; au- thorizing J. F. Chamberlain to erect hotel at Fortress Monroe; prohibiting the catching of mackerel during the spawning season; %s,. foF Of ths RoeRT oR0n nogntans relating to the judicial district of Illinois, relating to the procedure in contested cleo tions; confuing to American citizens the light to possess real estate in the territories; providing for an investigation of the books and accounts of the Pacific roads; relating to titles to certain lands in the District of Col umbia; providing for bringing suits against the United States; for constructing bridge accross the East river between New York and Long Island; for bridge across the Great Ksnawha river; for a bridge across the Red river of the North; to give eongresslonal as sent to the construction of free bridge by the county of Davidson, Tenn, over the Cumberland; amending an act for the purchase of site and erection of 8 public building at Detroit, Mich; authorizing the printing of two thousand five hundred extra copies of the report of the health office ot the District of Columbia and the eulogies in Congress upon the late Senator Logan; au- thorizing the construction of bridge across the Missouri between Omaha and Council Bluffs; authorizing the use of hot water oh the government reservation at Hot Springs, Arkansas; admitting free of duty articles for exhibition at the Minneapolis exposition
 Among the bills that failed to become laws the most important were the general de6- ciency, Notifications and river and harbor appropriation.
 Mrs. Cleveland Highly Pleased.
 WASHINGTON, March 4.-No one welcomes the adjournment of Congress more than Mrs. Cleveland as she is completely tired out from her recent onerous social duties and wants a few weeks of undisturbed rest. Since Lent began she has seen visitors with whom she has made appointments and has piles of daily missives craving an audience to look ever and arrange for every day. She has endeavered to see all those who wished to meet her and particularly the ladies of senatorial and con- gressional families who were about to leave town. Added to these has been the remark able influx of distinguished strangers who have teen presented by friends. Take it all in all Mrs Cleveland has had this winter fair intimation of how completely people regard the lady of theWhite House as being who has no right to evince the least fatigue.